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Submission + - EU rules limit vacuum cleaners to 1600W from the 1st of September

AmiMoJo writes: New EU rules are limiting vacuum cleaner motors to 1600W from 2014/09/01. The EU summary of the new rules explains that consumers currently equate watts with cleaning power, which is not the case. Manufacturers will be required to put ratings on packaging, including energy efficiency, cleaning efficiency on hard and carpeted floors, and dust emissions from the exhaust. In the EU vacuum cleaners use more energy than the whole of Denmark, and produce more emissions than dishwashers and washing machines.

Comment Re:iPad Kindle app observations (Score 2) 105

I have both an iPad and Kindle. A few things with the iPad...I touch a word, the dictionary entry comes up. This is quite helpful. I am used to referring to the progress bar so sequence recall isn't a problem. Some books have x-Ray enabled, and that helps with story cohesion. Basically, after I've spent a lot of time with the iPad reader, I find it as good or better than paper. Except for the beach.

The thing about the kindle is it comes somewhere between a paperback that you would take to the beach and an iPad that you would treat with great care. I bung a kindle in a rucksack if I'm camping, take it around places where I wouldn't bring an iPad - if it did get broken or nicked it would be annoying but not that annoying.

Comment Re:No difference (Score 1) 105

I certainly know that I can often open a physical book to the location of something I remember and come really close, particularly if it's a book I'm studying, but even for novels.

True, but its swings and roundabouts. I can often remember a phrase and search for it in kindle, or leave a bookmark that won't fall out!

Comment Re:Influence vs. similarity (Score 4, Insightful) 74

What the computer can do is point out what is similar. Whether the similarity is an example of influence then needs to be established with further evidence.

Of course even if there is influence it may not be direct. Both artists could have been influenced by another earlier artist, or the second one influenced by an intermediate one, or there could be a whole complex tree of influences

Comment Re:I'm so glad (Score 4, Insightful) 194

I don't work for a company that made the mistake of getting involved in that nightmare.

I'm pretty sure that a lot of companies are doing just fine out of it - paid to deliver the wrong thing then paid to deliver what the government should have specified in the first place.

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